This designer is sick of making products that end up in landfills: How she completely rethought her career to work on clean energy

This designer is sick of making products that end up in landfills: How she completely rethought her career to work on clean energy

After two decades as an industrial designer working on products like augmented reality glasses Lauryn Morris was ready for a change. “I was really becoming jaded with the status quo of the linear economy,” she says. Most products still take a one-way journey from raw materials to a landfill. Sustainability—including what happens at a product’s end of life—is usually an afterthought. Morris had seen the impact of climate change firsthand, when a …